Zenobia - 2024 ACF Winter - Buzzpoints App

Question

The advisor Cassius Longinus is often blamed for this ruler’s eventual break with Rome. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this ruler who was defeated at the Battles of Immae and Emesa by Aurelian after a 271 CE declaration of independence from Rome.

ANSWER: Zenobia [or Septimia Zenobia; prompt on Septimius Vaballathus by asking “who ruled as regent in his stead?”]

[10e] Many scholars have argued that Zenobia’s Palmyrene Empire should be considered a revolt by this ethnicity. The Rashidun Caliphate began a series of namesake “conquests” of this ethnic group after the birth of Islam.

ANSWER: Arabs [or Arab people; accept Arab conquests]

[10m] As part of his reunification of the Roman Empire, Aurelian was forced to abandon this Roman province north of the Danube, which had been established by Trajan after conquering a namesake tribe under King Decebalus.

ANSWER: Dacia [or Roman Dacia or Dacia Traiana or Dacia Felix; accept Dacians]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh	2024-11-16	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	8	25.00	88%	88%	75%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	17.14	57%	86%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	6	15.00	67%	50%	33%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	33%	100%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	67%	67%	67%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	9	13.33	33%	44%	56%
2024 ACF Winter at Brandeis	2024-11-16	Y	5	10.00	40%	40%	20%

Data


Berkeley A	Berkeley C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	10	20
Stanford L	Stanford M	0	10	10	20
Arkansas	McGill E	0	0	0	0
NYU A	Central Oklahoma	10	10	10	30
Missouri	Texas B	0	10	10	20
WUSTL A	Ole Miss	10	10	10	30
NYU B	Texas A	0	0	0	0
Yale B	Bowdoin A	10	0	10	20
Carabrandeis	Brown A	0	0	0	0
Brandeises Brew	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Northeastern A	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Yale A	0	0	0	0
Bard A	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Columbia A	0	0	0	0
Penn A	Penn State A	0	10	0	10
Notre Dame	WashU D	10	10	10	30
Oregon State	Vassar A	0	10	0	10
UW B	UBC A	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UBC B	10	0	10	20
UW A	SFU	10	10	10	30
UF B	UF A	10	10	10	30
UCF A	UF C	10	10	10	30
UF E	Florida Tech A	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	UIUC B	10	10	10	30
Indiana B	Purdue D	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	SIUE A	0	10	10	20
UIUC A	Indiana A	10	10	10	30
UChicago A	UIUC C	10	10	10	30
WashU B	UChicago C	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	WashU C	10	10	10	30
CWRU B (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	10	20
Michigan C (UG)	Kenyon B (DII)	0	10	10	20
Kenyon A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	0	0	0
Michigan State C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Pitt B (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan B	Ohio State C (DII)	10	10	10	30
Pitt A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Birmingham	Oxford B	10	0	0	10
Bristol B	Imperial A	0	0	10	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Cambridge D	Durham B	0	10	10	20
Cambridge C	LSE B	10	10	10	30
LSE A	Southampton A	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Southampton B	Cambridge B	0	0	0	0
Southampton B	Southampton A	10	0	0	10
Oxford A	Team 1	10	10	10	30
Warwick A	Bristol A	10	0	0	10